I stopped painting minitures in 1995 when I went to University not to look at a miniture until last year when my firend introduced me to X-wing.
Then I was introduced to the HWK-290 in its not so lovely shade of brown. The brown is the Moldy Crow so when I bought a second I just had to repaint it.
Once I'd spent £30 on paints, washes and brushes I had to make use of these and do some more so after a slow start I've now several of my miniatures repainted.